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I just got Toon Boom over the weekend and I'm surprised how quickly I was able to jump right in. compared to flash anyway. I still suck at animating of course, but I'm trying to see what kind of exercises I can do to practice. Any advice on that from anyone would be great.

This was my first test with it, trying to convey weight. I know, it ain't pretty.http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v177/gmcube/toonboom.gif

that look's sweet! hey one simply question! i recently hear the produccion music of ren & stimpy, and i found out that a song it's from spongebob too! nickelodeon own all the produccion music of ren & stimpy?

Oh, Mr. K. I always love your artwork...and your commentaries on the "Looney Tunes" DVDs. You have some of my favorite rubbery animations and some of the most wonderfully grotesque character designs. I know you probably hear that a lot, but what's one more.

Honestly I was playing with TB Studio last month and found it to be astoundingly capable. Looking at the feature comparison chart the only things missing are symbols and morphing - and Studio has video capture while Animate and Animate Pro doesn't, how strange!

That said I found myself compelled to do a little bit of animation this past week and ended up using Flash because the TB Studio trial had expires, and *am* making judicious use of symbols for moving holds. But in the age of YouTube they're nowhere near as crucial as they were back when we were doing WPH.

Juan, Ren and Stimpy didn't create their own production music, neither did Spongebob. Most of it is public domain music that various cartoons use. You can hear a lot of same music cues in varying series since it is cheaper to do that then hire someone to create original music.

If you search APM music on Youtube you'll find all of their tracks, APM is the company that produced the majority of Ren and Stimpy and Spongebobs Music.

I use an Axiotron Modbook with Mac OS 10.6.8. running on it. It's amazing because it's basically a mini-Cintique tablet. Great for drawing and animating on the go, for hand-drawn OR CG/Flash animation (using the pen stylus for CG puts less pressure on the nerves in your wrist).

Question for John K: have you heard of/used the Modbook? I know you use a Cintique so the smaller Modbook might come in handy for you if you travel a lot or (like me) frequent coffee shops and book stores.